Roderick Stewart wrote:
> In article <YvidnZyq4cW7f97XnZ2dnUVZ8kudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk >, Ian
> Smith wrote:
>> I don't agree with you in terms of quality. I have an excellent
>> sound system and I've never managed to get anything that gets near
>> hiss-free on FM.
>>
>> This is very much like the vinyl v CD discussion. Vinyl have me
>> crackly playback, oven on a good deck and with a new pressing. CD
>> gave me click and pop free playback - no matter what any HiFi mag
>> says, the 'quality' of my CD experience is higher.
>
> Hiss, the presence or absence of, is not the only measure of "quality".
> The hiss on FM is simply superimposed on the sound, and doesn't alter
> what it sounds like. Digital sound with bit-rate reduction is quite a
> different situation.
>
> The comparison between FM and DAB is nothing like the comparison
> between gramophone recordings and compact discs. The digital bit rate
> on CD is about 10 times the best rates we are now using on DAB and is
> not subject to any destructive bit-rate reduction.
>
And that resolves to how much the compression algorithms suit teh
material being played.

Its possible to do intelligible speech at 50 baud..it must be, because
you can read a telex at 50 baud and speak it out in real time

> Rod.
:-)

You cant do teh nunaces of a full orchestra like that, though.

Must take at least 300 baud to transmit the score, and have an orchestra
play it, but that loses the nuances altogether ;-)